Course abstract

Quality of steel plays an important role in imparting the specific application requirements to the product. Cleanliness as well as absence of defects are two broad facets of the quality of a steel product. Aim of this course is to give a brief introduction to the importance of secondary refining and continuous casting in achieving the desirable cleanliness and surface quality of cast and hot rolled steels.

Course Instructor

Dr. Santanu Kumar Ray

Dr. Santanu Kumar Ray has been the Steel Chair Professor in the department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering of IIT Madras since March 2016. He did his B.Tech ( Hons ), M.Tech and Ph.D , all from IIT Kharagpur . He spent 35 years at the R & D Centre of SAIL . For a brief period of 6 months he was the Principal of Seacom Engineering College in Kolkata. His areas of interests are commercial implementation of new developments in secondary refining and continuous casting of special and alloy steels.